{"id":10453,"date":"2020-01-08T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10453"},"modified":"2020-01-25T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:20:04","slug":"liz-wurtzel-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/08\/liz-wurtzel-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Wurtzel Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from CNN<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Wurtzel, a controversial writer whose work will live on<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Opinion by Holly Thomas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Wurtzel was a pioneer of the confessional memoir.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The opposite of controversial is irrelevant. So\u00a0believed<\/a>\u00a0Elizabeth Wurtzel, who was herself controversial and will remain relevant for years to come.\u00a0Wurtzel, a journalist, lawyer and author of “Prozac Nation,” died this week of complications from breast cancer. She was just 52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her obstinance in the face of her cancer diagnosis was almost uncomfortable to see. Last year,\u00a0in a column for the Guardian<\/a>, she nonsensed everyone who had told her “sorry” about her illness, declaring: “Everyone else can hate cancer. I don’t.”She continued: “I like the person I am with cancer and because of cancer…. I evolved. I am a student of curing the brokedown mirror that shards the brain.”\u00a0She became an advocate<\/a>\u00a0for testing for the BRCA genetic mutation, which she unknowingly carried and which caused her cancer.\u00a0As was typical in her previous writings about depression, feminism and other topics, she made no allowances for deviating perspectives. She gave only hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from CNN Elizabeth Wurtzel, a controversial writer whose work will live on Opinion by Holly Thomas The opposite of controversial is irrelevant. So\u00a0believed\u00a0Elizabeth Wurtzel, who was herself controversial and will remain relevant for years to come.\u00a0Wurtzel, a journalist, lawyer and author of “Prozac Nation,” died this week of complications from breast cancer. She was just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}